My primary goal this morning was to see if I could help pace Larry to a sub-24:00 time on the neighborhood 5K course. Larry has been the caretaker of the neighbor 5K run for most if not all its 20 year history, and it continues to be a great event every year. Larry has run every year except maybe one or two I think, and he has never run it slower than 24:00, but he was concerned about this year. He asked me to pace him to a 7:00 first mile (downhill) and then he wanted to average 8:30/mi for the last two. He hit the first mile marker at 7:00 and held sub-8:30 for next two and finished in 23:43. I knew he could do it, and it was only a training run. He said it was really hard and he doesn't look forward to going through it again on Saturday, but I think he'll run even faster.
Wayne also ran with us today. After the first mile he was still running with us but we encouraged him to go on ahead and he finished over a minute ahead of us. | 